Day 1, Experiment: Inter-Universal Transport
I pulled the lever in anticipation, this was the day I'd been waiting for for the past year. All that work, sweat, and blood, poured into this single, secretive project. Today, I will change the world, forever. That was how it was supposed to go, but... well, it didn't go like that. Basically, what went wrong was that the second I pulled the lever to transport a random object through to this universe, Twilight, who I will introduce later, had just pulled a teleportation spell. Unfortunately, due to how the machine interacts with multiversal mechanics, it intercepted her teleport, instead sending her here.
Now, about this "Twilight". When I pulled the lever, I had all of my equipment out to study the few minute atoms that the machine most likely pulled from multiple separate universes, but instead of that, the first thing I see start to materialize in the machine's center bay was not a collection of nearly indistinguishable dust, but a PONY, of all things!!! Now, I didn't really expect that, nor did I expect it to begin mumbling something about a cart hitting her as she stepped out when I opened the bay, but that's pretty much what happened.
After I let her pass out on an old couch nearby in my basement (or lab, if you want to call it that), she woke up, and said "Uh... what the BUCK happened?!" I jumped back at the sight of a pastel-colored horse with butt-marks speak to me in perfect English, besides the fact that she just replaced a questionable word with what seemed like her best alternative.
I walked up to her, and said calmly, "Hi, my name's Sammy Gearings. Sorry if I might've just pulled you out of your universe."
She sat there, blinking at me, until I took a deep breath, and asked for her name. "Twilight. Twilight Sparkle, princess of friendship. but seriously, of all things, why ME?! All of Equestria is going to freak out without me, not to mention the utter chaos that'll ensue without my presence!"
I stepped back, and looked her head to toe. She was about the size of a large dog, but still retained the obvious features of a pony. The odd things about her were that she had two things that DEFINITELY didn't belong; her horn, and her wings. She watched me carefully as I continued staring her over, to the point of which I'm pretty sure I might've creeped her out.
Finally, she spoke again. "What? is there something wrong with me? Is my fur burnt or something? Wait, you're human. AM I NOT WEARING CLOTHES?!" I mentally giggled at her sudden outburst of shock from the sight of me being a human.
Suddenly, I realized, "Wait, you've met humans?"
She nodded, and looked at one of her hooves. "Well, it's just that back where I come from, there's this portal leading directly to an alternate dimension where all of the ponies are human, and whenever I go through the portal, I become human, too. I was just thinking that since you're human, I should've also become human when you brought me here. I just don't really understand how, or why." She looked clearly puzzled, and with what she just said, so was I.
I came up with a theory. "Maybe, it's because this machine somehow didn't just take you from your universe, but it actually took you and a PIECE of your universe with you! Or maybe... huh, my head hurts."
Twilight rolled her eyes at the sight of my confusion. "You might be right, but that theory doesn't exactly sound very logical, but at the same time, it does seem plausible..." She began to wander off in her own thoughts, while I went upstairs to get a drink.
A few minutes later, I came back down with a nice, cold glass of chocolate milk. The second I opened the door to the basement, I saw Twilight suddenly disappear form the couch and reappear right in front of me, nearly causing me to trip. "IS THAT CHOCOLATE MILK?!" she exclaimed happily, seeming to literally bounce in a circle around me. "I love chocolate milk, I've liked it since I was a filly! Can I have some?"
I raised the cup out of her reach, but I looked back down and saw her eyes. Her big, lavender, overwhelmingly cute eyes. I sighed and set the cup on the floor for her. Just before I turned around to fetch a bowl and another cup of chocolate milk for myself, I saw Twilight's horn begin to glow. The cup I set on the floor was surrounded by what I could only call and "aura" of the same color.
To my surprise, the cup began to lift from the ground, and Twilight pretty much just chugged it down. I stood dumbfounded, when she set the cup down and looked back up at me, and said, "What? Do you have a problem with watching magical spells being performed? Wait... oh..." I was a little confused by what she just said, but at the same time, I kinda understood what she meant. Magic, according to many sources, is just a name for unexplained phenomenons, and levitation without special devices is definitely one of them. After she began to talk seemingly endlessly about how magic "works" I sat down, and took out a blank journal. She was explaining straight-up facts, not the sort of mumbo-jumbo that magicians here talk about. She actually EXPLAINED HOW IT WORKED. The only thing she wasn't able to explain was how living beings such as her and I could possible pull it of without any sign of possible self-destruction.
At her mention of that, I froze. If the way it's somehow mulled off would normally lead to self-destruction, then it would be practically impossible for non-quantum computers to do anything more than maybe control some basic levitation mechanics. And even then, the current quantum technology is definitely insufficient to really even simulate any of that. The machine that I accidentally pulled Twilight through was powered by the single, most powerful object I've ever found, but the sheer strain on it practically made it useless after one transport.
I need to lay down.